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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hideo Terasawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohisa Shiga, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348564 ; 348906 ; 348731 ; 348 13 ;
Abstract
A desired program is selected speedily and reliably from a plurality of programs. Reduced-sized still pictures of typical frames of programs to be broadcast on the respective channels are divided by program category and displayed as an electronic program guide. A cursor is shifted in the left and right directions to select a desired category. When an instruction is given to shift the cursor in the upward and downward directions, the still pictures of the selected category are scrolled. When the picture is determined by a selecting operation, its program is received.